Maver man Sean Wright drew the road­side area and worked with mag­got over ground­bait at 13m to win with 12-6-0 of roach and small skim­mers. Mick Wood was sec­ond with 12-4-0 of roach and skim­mers on feeder and pole with mag­got.

In a full house, Lee Row­land piled 130-15-0 on to the scales from peg 105 on Canal 5 for the win. Caster shal­low at 7m down the mid­dle took a net of F1s to 2lb. Shaun Cooke used pel­let in the mar­gins and over to the far bank at peg 103 to take sec­ond with 98-4-0.

On a dif­fi­cult river, Nor­man­ton’s Joe Mur­ray still weighed in 8-450 of roach, perch and skim­mers for an easy win off peg 85, where he caught on stick float and mag­got. Sec­ond-placed Craig Sin­gle­ton had 4-4-80 of roach and skim­mers from peg 93 on mag­got at 14m and 16m.

The 2016 champ is Craig Tur­bitt. The Tackle 2U river reg­u­lar weighed in 13-11-0 of roach and perch from Calder Road on wag­gler and mag­got. Dar­ren Tay­lor got clos­est to him with 10-8-0 of roach and grayling on stick float and mag­got from his peg at Li­lands Farm.

Weights were down on re­cent weeks but St He­lens An­gling-backed Mick Birkhill took 23-4-0 of skim­mers and a few bream on ground­bait feeder and worm from peg 82. On the next peg Martin Orm­rod took sec­ond with 20-1-0 of skim­mers and bream on feeder and worm.

event with five points to lift the sil­ver­ware, but he didn’t win ei­ther match. York rod Craig Robin­son took day one with 19-8-0 of chub on bomb and wasp grub. Dave Rob­son of Selby won Sun­day’s tus­sle with 19-2-0 of chub on bomb and caster.

Roach, dace and chublets won this for Steve Cross­ley. The Maver NW man was drawn on peg 85 and fished mag­got on the 8m and 14m pole lines for 8-9-0 at the scales. Roach, skim­mers and a bonus 1lb 8oz tench saw War­ren McLeavey into sec­ond with 5-14-0 off peg 40, where he caught on caster fished at 8m and 14m.

Draw­ing on the short length, Lancs MG man Mark Rim­mer found skim­mers to 10oz, plus roach, for 6-6-4 on bread­punch at 11m. Match or­gan­iser Shaun Whar­ton fol­lowed in sec­ond with 6-4-0 of roach on punch and hemp.

Wi­gan MG Green opened their cam­paign in win­ning fash­ion as they to­talled five points to get four in front of Sen­sas NW Black. They also had the in­di­vid­ual win­ner in Matt Glover. He was pegged on the end of the Red Lion sec­tion, where hemp at 13m gave him roach backed up by two eels for 3lb on worm fished down the track for 10-6-8. Chris Bir­chall took sec­ond with 8-8-0.